Top 1200 War Veteran Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

Veteran employment is an issue that is very important to me and my Administration.

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.

Losing is hard on all of us regardless of rookie or veteran.

To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.

What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.

We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.

Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

You don't really realize when you become a 'veteran' - it just sort of happens.

I'm a former educator, a veteran, and I have a strong energy and asset background.

after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

When you meet a veteran, thank them for their service.

War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira

Even as a child I used to mimic veteran film actors of the time.

I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.